Alexander’s homebred Desmond Doss prominent in Sunday’s $100,000 Sensational Star Stakes
At 1h21, on March 21, 2021 • By SANTA ANITA
Nick Alexander’s homebred Desmond Doss, Brandothebartender and Jamming Eddy all rate big chances among a wide-open field of seven older horses bred or sired in California going six furlongs on turf in Sunday’s $100,000 Sensational Star Stakes at Santa Anita.
Sent to the lead on Feb. 28 after breaking slowly and faced with intense pressure throughout, Desmond Doss, a 5-year-old full horse by Grazen, went head and head with Fashionably Fast the final three sixteenths of a mile and missed by a head in a thriller while holding Brandothebartender off by the same margin for second money.
Trained by Steve Miyadi, Desmond Doss, who is out of the Malek mare Malley Girl, will be seeking his first stakes win in what will be his fifth added money assignment. With an overall mark of 10-3-2-0, he has earnings of $161,951.
